Forest Hills High School (New York)
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67-01 110th St. Forest Hills, Queens, New York 11375 United States |
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| Coordinates | 40°43′47″N 73°50′42″W / 40.7298°N 73.845°WCoordinates: 40°43′47″N 73°50′42″W / 40.7298°N 73.845°W |
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| Type | Public secondary |
| Motto | It all begins and ends in the classroom. |
| Established | 1937 |
| School board | New York City Department of Education |
| School district | NYC School District 28 |
| School number | Q440 |
| CEEB code | 331935 |
| Principal | Ben Sherman |
| Grades | 9–12 |
| Enrollment | 3,840 |
| Color(s) | Red, blue and gold |
| Mascot | Rangers |
| Average SAT scores | 477 Verbal 514 Math 479 Writing (2013) |
| Average ACT scores | 23 Math 21 English 22 Reading 21 Science (2013) |
| Newspaper | The Beacon |
| Yearbook | Forester |
| Website | www |
Forest Hills High School (FHHS) is a high school in the Forest Hills neighborhood in the New York City borough of Queens, near Rego Park. Dedicated in 1937, it educates students in grades 9–12 and is operated by the New York City Department of Education.
The school serves the Forest Hills and Rego Park neighborhoods of Queens. However, many students come from nearby neighborhoods such as Kew Gardens, Jackson Heights, Woodside, Flushing, Elmhurst, East Elmhurst, Astoria, Corona, Glendale and parts of Jamaica.
FHHS has often been extremely overcrowded throughout its history, oftentimes running several overlapping sessions. Traditionally, a very large percentage of FHHS graduates have gone on to attend colleges.
It is a recipient of the silver medal from U.S. News & World Report's list of the best high schools in the nation.
Plans for a new high school were in the works since 1937, when the Board of Education announced plans for "a new building at Forest Hills High School, 110th Street and Sixty-sixth Road, Queens, [for] $2,900,000." In 1938, while announcing plans for new construction, the Cord Meyer Development Company, already responsible for the development of most of Forest Hills, mentioned that plans for a high school were under consideration, in order to accommodate the growing population of families in the area and their demands for quality, public education.
In 1939, the Board of Education planned to build a new school adjoining "the World Fair's Grounds" (today's Flushing Meadows-Corona Park), in order to alleviate overcrowding at Newtown, Grover Cleveland, and Jamaica High Schools. Local residents were sending their kids to the aforementioned schools, since the growing community at Forest Hills did not yet have a local high school. It was expected to cost $3,225,000 ($51,985,157 in 2012 Dollars), and was to be built of a modified Georgian Design. The vice president of the Board at the time, Ellsworth S. Buck, called it "the most beautiful educational structure in the city...establishing a high point in the city's building program." It was to have shades of red brick, a gray slate roof, and a limestone trim. The school design was innovative in and of itself, where the gymnasiums and auditorium was separated from the main unit (building). This created separate gymnasiums for boys and girls, with the extended wings forming a plaza. In order to meet the conditions of the locality, it was designed to be three stories high, with a total of 10 acres (40,000 m2) allotted to it. Partly due to its lot size, an athletic field was built into the back part of the lot, with a grandstand designed for 3,000 people and a "spacious" field for football and track. Designed by the architect Eric Kebbon, ground was to be broken in six months, and the school was expected to open its doors in September 1940.
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